Re: Ignore BURKE

[aburke5054@aol.com]

 Well, at least you're back to your usual lame tactic of saying you don't read my notes instead of threatening, as you did before, to get a mob and beat me up. NCLB does have clunky features, but only a lunatic would continue to claim, as you do, that it is racist, or "corporate-driven," or a tool to privatize public education. You started down paranoia road and now I'm afraid there is no turning back for you. I think you really might go after someone in a violent way. Maybe that's what you shoud really be resisting.
 
 Art 
   
  -----Original Message-----
 From: Csubstance@aol.com
 To: arn-l@interversity.org
 Sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 3:31 AM
 Subject: [arn-l] Ignore BURKE
 
  1/31/07

After reading and rereading George Sheridan's moving account of the 
destructiveness of testing, my only thought was why anyone here still opens 
anything to 
come our of Art Burke.

I've been deleting regularly for years, nothing that from time to time here, 
and know I haven't missed a thing. 

This morning, a group from Chicago is releasing a major study showing that 
school closings in Chicago have damaged thousands of children since they became 
policy here in 2003. This is a foreshadowing of what is going to come 
nationwide when the privatization portion of NCLB kicks in as "failing" schools 
increase in number. Chicago under Daley has just been way ahead of all these 
ugly 
things, just as Texas was under Bush.

The study being released today, conducted by Pauline Lipman (now at the 
University of Illinois Chicago) is called "Collateral Damage." Hopefully, people 

will share it widely in order to prevent the massive national spread of school 
closings under No Child Left Behind and an explosion of children who are harmed 
by them. 

As long-time readers here know, for more than ten years Chicago has been 
central to the hypocrisy, racism, and child abuse that are central to 
high-stakes 
testing and corporate "standards and accountability". Those of us who have 
been leading the resistance to that here have some battle scars, but at least we 

can look our own children in the eye and tell them that we did not participate 
in or enable those monstrous things.

And now the pendulum begins to swing, but only if people oppose "No Child 
Left Behind" completely.

As we've been saying: Abolition. Not Amelioration.

Become an abolitionist. It clarifies, rather than muddies.

George Schmidt
Editor, Substance
www.substancenews.com
   
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